Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke